Investing Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859-2011

by Simon James Bytheway

Investing Japan demonstrates that foreign investment is a vital and misunderstood aspect of Japan's modern economic development. The drive to become a modern industrial power from the 1860s to the 1930s necessitated the adoption and internalization of foreign knowledge. This goal could only be achieved by working within the overarching financial and technological frameworks of Western capitalism. Foreign borrowing, supported by the gold standard,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417135
• ISBN13: 9780674417137
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"